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Can anyone tell me how much greater the is quality of the NEC XT5000 to normal single chip DLPs. It is for sale on ebay and I would like any further information regarding this unit. It has 4500 lumens which sounds good, but I just dont know about the quality.

Hi Ryan, hope someone can help you with your query. I have noticed you've cross posted this to at least two other forums (one of which being the DLP/LCD projector forum which is probably the most appropriate). Just for info it's against forum rules to cross post to more than one forum...PJ

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Q. Yuck! That's so tacky, over the top, and cheesy!
A. Even though that's not really a question, I'll respond by saying "Yeah! Of course it is!" This isn't meant to be a room that you live in, or sleep in, or work in. The rest of the house can be decorated tastefully - but the whole intent of this room was to be "over the top" in a "Las Vegas meets old-style movie palace" kind of way. It's sensory overload by design. Some people prefer simple, muted, purely functional designs for their home theaters. And that's just great for them. I wanted something crazy, not tasteful. I wanted a room where my friends would walk in, start laughing, and say "Dude - you are NUTS!" And that's pretty much the reaction I get. ​

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Q. Yuck! That's so tacky, over the top, and cheesy!
A. Even though that's not really a question, I'll respond by saying "Yeah! Of course it is!" This isn't meant to be a room that you live in, or sleep in, or work in. The rest of the house can be decorated tastefully - but the whole intent of this room was to be "over the top" in a "Las Vegas meets old-style movie palace" kind of way. It's sensory overload by design. Some people prefer simple, muted, purely functional designs for their home theaters. And that's just great for them. I wanted something crazy, not tasteful. I wanted a room where my friends would walk in, start laughing, and say "Dude - you are NUTS!" And that's pretty much the reaction I get. ​

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I guess from the reaction that most people would rather have the tedious IKEA look from the guys media closet.

If I was building a dedicated room I'd have one that looked like the classic theatres from the early 20th century, the ones that have almost all been demolished now to be replaced by those very attractive multiplex thingys.

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It's like a Baz Luhrmann nightmare come to life - which is fine, I guess, but it's just not for me. And I'm not sure about calling the bit where you store your kit a "Media Closet". I think I'm a bit too terminally self-conscious to use that phrase in polite conversation.

Plus, that room reminds me of the old Opera House theatre, in my home town Scarborough, which really went for the red brocade glamour big-time and was left to fall into rotten disrepair. Such sad memories...